A natureza da especialização intra-industrial no Brasil: Uma análise dos setores de siderurgia e papel e celulose após a liberalização comercial

Abstract

From the end of the decade of 80 Brazil passed for a process of economic liberalization, that associated to the increase of the international competition caused transformations in its productive structure, with impacts on the standard of effective commerce in the country. This work looks for to verify this existing relation between commercial opening, the decurrent transformations of this process and its impacts for the Brazilian commerce, through the analysis of the sectors of siderurgy and paper and cellulose. It was verified that the commercial liberalization, associate to other factors, such as protectionist measures and constitution of commercial blocks, would be contributing for the increase of the commerce intra-industrial and a process of Brazilian commercial specialization in segments or products less elaborated, exactly in those considered strong competitive sectors, with "natural comparative advantages", as it is the case of the selected sectors, characterizing a process of regressive intra-industrial specialization